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Browse all Rachel Hauck books in order, with story summaries, series lists, Hearts Bend background, and simple guidance on the best places to start reading.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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Lambert's Pride

by Rachel Hauck

2004

Elizabeth Lambert is determined to leave small‑town life behind for graduate school and a high‑powered career, not fall for a flannel‑wearing forest ranger. Yet working alongside Kavan Donovan in New Hampshire’s woods unsettles all her tidy plans. As job troubles mount and the whole town seems to be rooting for a romance, Elizabeth must decide whether her ambition is pride in disguise or a genuine calling she cannot ignore.

This Time

by Rachel Hauck

2004

Twelve years after Burke Benning left her at the altar to chase an NFL career, Oklahoma rancher Belle Jamison is stunned to learn he is coming home for their class reunion. Burke returns determined to make amends and explain the choice that broke both their hearts. As old chemistry flares and painful memories surface, Belle must decide whether some betrayals are unforgivable or if this time love can last.

Lambert's Code

by Rachel Hauck

2005

After years of infertility treatments, Julie Lambert finally hears the doctor’s verdict: she will never carry a child. Devastated, she begins making reckless choices that push her husband, Ethan, further away. Urged on by his grandfather, Ethan revisits the Lambert family “code” of mutual submission and sacrificial love and fights for their marriage. Both must grieve the future they lost and learn whether they can build a new one together.

Georgia On Her Mind

by Rachel Hauck

2006

On one Monday morning in Florida, Macy Moore loses almost everything she prizes: her corporate management job and the boyfriend she expected to marry. Reeling, she returns to her hometown of Beauty, Georgia, to emcee her high‑school reunion and lick her wounds with the help of her “Single Saved Sisters” friends. As she reconnects with her community and her former crush Dylan, Macy begins to see that the life she left behind might hold what she truly wants.

Lambert's Peace

by Rachel Hauck

2006

Burned‑out consultant Taylor Hudson heads to White Birch, New Hampshire, hoping a slower pace will help her regroup and refocus on her career. Instead she runs straight into Will Lambert, the man she loved and left a decade ago. As they navigate old hurts, new opportunities, and Taylor’s fear of losing control, both must decide whether they will cling to ambition or risk everything for a second chance at love.

Lost in NashVegas

by Rachel Hauck

2006

Small‑town grocery clerk Robin Rae McAfee has spent years scribbling songs in secret, convinced stage fright and family doubts will keep her stuck forever. On a burst of courage she packs her guitar and heads to Nashville, determined to play the Bluebird Cafe and see if she has what it takes. Life in Music City brings new friends, industry realities, and the slow burn of romance, but also forces Robin to choose between safety and the risky joy of pursuing her calling.

Nashville Dreams

by Rachel Hauck

2006

Formerly published as Lost in NashVegas, Nashville Dreams follows aspiring songwriter Robin Rae McAfee from Freedom, Alabama, to the clubs and writer rounds of Music City. Battling stage fright, industry politics, and her own insecurity, Robin leans on a circle of new friends and the steady presence of musician Lee Rivers. Her journey asks whether success is measured by chart positions or by learning to live out the gifts God has given her.

Diva NashVegas

by Rachel Hauck

2007

Country superstar Aubrey James has spent years topping charts while hiding deep grief and a wavering faith behind glitter and attitude. When a disgruntled band member sells a damaging story to the tabloids, she agrees to an in‑depth TV interview to tell her side. The journalist assigned is Scott Vaughn, a man tied to her past. As cameras roll, Aubrey must finally confront old wounds, strained family ties, and the question of who she is offstage.

Nashville Sweetheart

by Rachel Hauck

2007

Reissued from Diva NashVegas, Nashville Sweetheart follows hit‑making singer Aubrey James as her carefully controlled public image implodes. Pressured into a long, revealing interview with Inside NashVegas and stunned to find an old acquaintance behind the microphone, she can no longer dodge questions about her parents’ deaths, her lost faith, or the real cost of fame. Opening up may destroy her brand, but it might be the only road to freedom.

Love Starts with Elle

by Rachel Hauck

2008

Artist and gallery owner Elle Garvy loves her life on the Beaufort waterfront and is engaged to charismatic pastor Jeremiah Franklin, convinced she is walking straight into God’s plan. When Jeremiah abruptly ends the engagement and heads to Texas alone, Elle’s faith and identity crumble. Renting her creekside cottage to widowed New York lawyer Heath McCord and his little girl brings unexpected companionship, forcing Elle to consider whether love and calling might look different than she imagined.

Sweet Caroline

by Rachel Hauck

2008

Caroline Sweeny has always taken care of everyone else, from family members to diners at the lowcountry cafe where she waits tables. When her boss unexpectedly leaves her the struggling Frogmore Cafe and a friend offers her a dream job overseas, she is forced to choose between loyalty and long‑delayed dreams. Toss in the return of first love Mitch O’Neal and Caroline must finally ask what kind of life she really wants.

The Sweet By and By

by Rachel Hauck

2009

Vintage‑shop owner Jade Fitzgerald is weeks away from marrying steady, successful Max Benson and leaving her rough childhood behind. Then a red wedding invitation forces her to invite her free‑spirited mother and fractured family back into her life. As old wounds reopen and secrets surface in Whisper Hollow, Jade has to decide whether she can build a future without first making peace with the past she has tried so hard to forget.

Dining with Joy

by Rachel Hauck

2010

Joy Ballard hosts a popular regional cooking show in coastal South Carolina, but she is hiding a disastrous secret: she cannot cook. When a national network buys the program and pairs her with handsome chef Luke Redmond, the charade gets harder to maintain. As ratings rise and rivalries deepen, Joy’s carefully built persona collapses, forcing her to confront her pride, her past, and the question of where her true worth lies.

Softly and Tenderly

by Rachel Hauck

2010

Happily married to Max and running two boutiques, Jade Benson believes she is finally living the stable life she always wanted, yet her heart aches for a baby that will not come. When she learns Max has a toddler son from a brief relationship before their wedding, and his ex has died, Jade feels betrayed and overwhelmed. Retreating to her family farm in Iowa, she must face her mother’s failing health, an old love, and the hard work of forgiving the man she chose.

Love Lifted Me

by Rachel Hauck

2012

Jade and Max Benson are finally building a fragile peace after past betrayals, raising little Asa and trying to start fresh in a small Texas town where Max has taken a high‑school coaching job. When he discovers corruption in the football program and Jade receives news that could shatter him, old fears resurface. Both must decide whether to run, as they have before, or to let grace reshape their marriage and future.

The Wedding Dress

by Rachel Hauck

2012

Bridal boutique owner Charlotte Malone loves finding the right gown for every bride, yet she cannot choose one for her own upcoming wedding. At an estate sale she wins a battered trunk that hides a flawless, century‑old wedding dress linking four women across time. As Charlotte hunts down the stories of Emily, Mary Grace, Hillary, and the mysterious man who once “redeemed” the dress, she is forced to face her doubts about love, legacy, and faith.

Hurricane Allie

by Rachel Hauck

2013

Allie Stetson has planned the perfect coastal wedding, right down to the last seashell. Days before the ceremony, a hurricane bearing her name spins toward shore and her fiancé, Kyle Landon, is stranded in New York on business. As flights cancel and storm warnings climb, Allie scrambles for a Plan B and discovers that marriage is less about flawless details and more about weathering real‑life storms together.

Once Upon a Prince

by Rachel Hauck

2013

After twelve years with her high‑school sweetheart, Savannah landscape architect Susanna Truitt expects a proposal but instead gets dumped. On the same day she meets a courteous stranger with a flat tire under the Lover’s Oak and pours out her heart, never guessing he is Prince Nathaniel of Brighton on a low‑key holiday. As their paths keep crossing and feelings grow, Nathaniel’s looming coronation and a rigid constitution threaten to keep them apart.

A Brush with Love

by Rachel Hauck

2014

Ginger Winters is a gifted hairstylist who can make any bride feel beautiful, but scars from a childhood accident leave her convinced she will never be truly seen herself. Back in her Alabama hometown to run a salon and style a high‑society wedding, the last person she expects to walk in is Tom Wells Jr., the boy who once disappeared with her heart. As Tom gently challenges her view of herself, Ginger must decide whether to stay locked behind old shame or risk believing she is worthy of love.

A March Bride

by Rachel Hauck

2014

Susanna Truitt is three weeks away from marrying King Nathaniel II and becoming queen of Brighton when the government insists she give up her American citizenship. Combined with her family’s distance and the weight of royal expectations, the demand rattles her confidence. While she retreats home to St. Simons Island to think, Nathaniel must show her that their marriage is about a higher kingdom than either flag they fly.

Princess Ever After

by Rachel Hauck

2014

Regina Beswick is perfectly happy restoring classic cars in Florida when a visiting official from the Grand Duchy of Hessenberg informs her she is the nation’s long‑lost princess. Overnight she is whisked into a world of tiaras, court rituals, and political opposition, guided by serious, duty‑bound Minister of Culture Tanner Burkhardt. As Regina struggles to decide between her shop and a country that needs her, she and Tanner confront their own fears and the possibility that destiny might be wider than they imagined.

How to Catch a Prince

by Rachel Hauck

2015

American heiress and journalist Corina Del Rey once secretly married Prince Stephen of Brighton just before he deployed to Afghanistan, only to lose him in the fog of war and guilt. Years later, a hidden legal document forces them back into each other’s lives, threatening scandal and exposing wounds neither has faced. As Stephen relives combat trauma and Corina confronts unfinished grief, they must decide whether their marriage was a youthful mistake or a love worth fighting for.

Spring Brides

by Rachel Hauck

2015

This collection gathers three springtime wedding novellas, including Rachel Hauck’s A March Bride, in which landscape architect Susanna Truitt is only weeks away from marrying King Nathaniel of Brighton. Pressured to renounce her American citizenship and feeling abandoned by family and friends, Susanna starts to wonder if she has misheard God. Nathaniel must win her heart all over again, proving their marriage is about more than politics or protocol.

The Wedding Chapel

by Rachel Hauck

2015

Retired football coach Jimmy “Coach” Westbrook spent the 1940s building a stone wedding chapel in the Tennessee hills as a monument to his first love, artist Collette Greer, only to lose her to distance and misunderstanding. In the present day, photographer Taylor Branson elopes with ad‑man Jack Forester and immediately doubts their rushed marriage. When a photo assignment sends her back to Hearts Bend and the forgotten chapel, Taylor’s story collides with Coach and Collette’s, revealing long‑kept secrets and a surprising path toward healing.

A Royal Christmas Wedding

by Rachel Hauck

2016

Five years after Prince Colin of Brighton broke her heart without explanation, Avery Truitt is back on the island kingdom for Christmas, grieving her father and helping her mother. The media is obsessed with whether Colin will ring the chapel bell that signals a royal proposal, and seeing him again stirs up all the feelings Avery tried to bury. Caught between a coaching job back home and the possibility of rekindled love, she must decide if she trusts Colin and the God who may be writing a new chapter.

The Wedding Shop

by Rachel Hauck

2016

In the 1930s, Cora Scott runs her family’s elegant wedding shop in Hearts Bend, dressing brides while waiting for her riverboat‑captain sweetheart to return and make her a bride at last. Eighty years later, former Air Force captain Haley Morgan comes home from military service and a broken engagement, drawn to reopen the long‑abandoned shop she once played in as a child. As Cora’s and Haley’s timelines intertwine, the shop becomes a place where old secrets surface, new love grows, and God quietly knits shattered stories together.

The Writing Desk

by Rachel Hauck

2017

Bestselling author Tenley Roth is paralyzed by writer’s block when her second novel is due, so she retreats to her estranged mother’s old Florida home and discovers an antique writing desk with a hidden history. A century earlier, Gilded Age heiress Birdie Shehorn used that same desk to secretly pursue her dream of writing while resisting a society marriage. As Tenley and Birdie’s stories unfold in alternating timelines, both women must decide whose expectations will define their lives.

The Love Letter

by Rachel Hauck

2018

Hollywood actress Chloe Daschle is tired of dying in every role and longs for a part that means something. When she auditions for a historical film based on a one‑page Revolutionary War–era love letter, she meets screenwriter Jesse Gates, who is still haunted by past tragedy. Their modern‑day connection runs alongside the 18th‑century romance between loyalist Esther Longfellow and patriot Hamilton Lightfoot, showing how sacrificial love can echo across generations.

The Memory House

by Rachel Hauck

2019

New York City cop Beck Holiday, suspended after a bad choice on the job, learns she has inherited an old Victorian house in coastal Florida from a woman she barely remembers. Returning to the town, she meets sports agent Bruno Endicott and slowly uncovers lost memories tied to the house and her father, who died on 9/11. Decades earlier, Everleigh Applegate fled to that same home after a tornado shattered her young marriage. Their intertwined stories reveal how love and faith can heal even the deepest losses.

The Wedding Dress Christmas

by Rachel Hauck

2019

Back in Hearts Bend for the holidays, JoJo Castle is content helping her cousin at The Wedding Shop and keeping her bruised heart safely closed. Country music star Buck Mathews returns home to care for his sick mother and collides with the girl he always noticed but never pursued. When a legendary wedding dress reappears, JoJo and Buck must face old dreams, clashing life plans, and the chance that Christmas might still hold a miracle.

The Fifth Avenue Story Society

by Rachel Hauck

2020

Five strangers in New York City receive mysterious invitations to meet at an old Fifth Avenue library and reluctantly show up, convinced it is a mistake or a prank. Week after week, executive assistant Lexa, literature professor Jett, Uber driver Chuck, widower Ed, and cosmetics mogul Coral keep returning. As they gradually share the stories they have hidden, unlikely friendships form and each discovers a new way forward from regret, grief, and fear.

To Love a Prince

by Rachel Hauck

2020

As a girl, Daffodil Caron roamed Lauchtenland’s palace with the royal brothers until a dangerous secret pushed her out of their world. Years later she is an art curator with a safe fiancé and no interest in princes, until a bearded stranger on a Florida beach turns out to be her old friend Prince Gus, still nursing a shattered heart. Working together on a royal project forces them to confront past betrayals, buried attraction, and what loyalty really costs.

To Save A King

by Rachel Hauck

2021

After a string of bad choices in Hollywood, Gemma Stone limps back to Hearts Bend to run a rescue ranch and raise her friends’ orphaned daughter, determined to stay hidden. Grieving widower Prince John of Lauchtenland arrives on a quiet mission for his mother and stumbles into Gemma’s world. Their unlikely friendship becomes a lifeline, but when duty calls John home, both must decide if they have the courage to risk their guarded hearts.

One Fine Day

by Rachel Hauck

2022

Widowed pastry chef Chloe Beason LaRue returns from Paris to Hearts Bend to care for her ailing mother and take a job at Haven’s Bakery, only to find her new boss is Sam Hardy, the hometown football star who once broke her heart. As they work together to save the bakery and face buried grief, Chloe must choose between a fresh start in France and a second chance at the love she never really forgot.

You'll Be Mine

by Rachel Hauck

2022

International hotel manager Ben Carter comes home to sell his grandparents’ beloved Hearts Bend Inn, planning to leave town for good. Real‑estate developer Cami Jackson wants to buy the property for professional and deeply personal reasons, but she never expected Ben to be the boy who once owned her heart. As old memories collide with family opposition, the two must decide whether the inn’s future includes them together.

The Best Summer of Our Lives

by Rachel Hauck

2023

In the summer of 1977, best friends Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Snow plan one last adventure before college but end up sentenced to be camp counselors in tiny Tumbleweed, Oklahoma, after a prank goes wrong. Secrets, romance, and heartbreak that summer fracture their bond. Twenty years later, washed‑up musician Summer Wilde is drawn back to Tumbleweed, and the Four Seasons are forced to face the choices that changed everything and the God who never stopped pursuing them.

Meet Me at the Starlight

by Rachel Hauck

2024

Former eighties supermodel Harlow Hayes retreats to a quiet Florida beach town after a public heartbreak and stumbles into the aging roller‑skating rink that once anchored the community. Its feisty owner, Tuesday Knight, is fighting a developer’s wrecking ball, aided by her grandson Matt, a Hollywood actor hiding from bad press. As Harlow, Matt, and Tuesday rally the town to save the Starlight, old scandals, buried family stories, and a tender romance rise under the glow of neon lights.

The Sands of Sea Blue Beach

by Rachel Hauck

2025

Journalist Emery Quinn accepts a job at the tiny Sea Blue Beach Gazette after her life in Ohio implodes, returning to the Florida motel where she spent one bittersweet summer with her late mother. Architect Caleb Ransom has also come home, caring for his troubled nephew and leading a Main Street restoration. Reunited after their teenage romance, Emery and Caleb must face a town divided by class and old grudges, and decide if forgiveness can give both their love and Sea Blue Beach a second chance.

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Anyone But You

by Rachel Hauck

2026

High‑profile Nashville developer Cami Jackson comes to Hearts Bend intending to buy and flip the inn tied to her most painful childhood memories. Hotel executive Ben Carter wants to sell the property and move overseas, until Cami shows up as the buyer he never expected. Reunited after a long‑ago summer crush, they confront family secrets, business pressure, and a stubborn attraction that may finally pull both of them home.

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To Win A Crown

by Rachel Hauck

2026

Fashion‑brand creative director Scottie O’Shay discovers overnight that she is the secret daughter of Lauchtenland’s queen, uprooting everything she thought she knew about her identity. Invited to Europe to meet the royal family, she collides with Michael Cross, a duty‑bound protection officer who has no intention of falling for an American outsider. As palace intrigue, family hurt, and a looming coronation swirl around them, Scottie must choose between her life in Tennessee and a future that includes both a crown and unexpected love.

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What If I Stay

by Rachel Hauck

2026

Cami Jackson has built a reputation in Nashville by turning sentimental properties into profitable projects and never looking back. When the Hearts Bend Inn comes up for sale, she sees both a lucrative deal and a chance to face the place where her mother died. Ben Carter, the boy who once stole her heart, has inherited the inn but plans to move on. Their reunion forces them to confront old trauma, clashing priorities, and the possibility that staying could be the bravest choice.

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When I'm With You

by Rachel Hauck

2026

In Hearts Bend, overachieving Elizabeth has one foot out the door with an acceptance letter to a top business school. Helping her old friend Ryder with a suspicious financial issue tied to his career uncovers fraud that could ruin him. As they investigate, sparks fly between them, but so do conflicting dreams. Elizabeth must weigh the future she planned against the chance that real success might mean changing course.

Where should I start?

If you love royal fairy‑tale romance: Once Upon a PrincePrincess Ever AfterHow to Catch a PrinceA Royal Christmas Wedding
If you enjoy time‑slip stories and heirlooms: The Wedding DressThe Wedding ShopThe Wedding ChapelThe Fifth Avenue Story Society
If you want to visit Hearts Bend, Tennessee: The Wedding DressThe Wedding ChapelThe Wedding ShopThe Wedding Dress ChristmasOne Fine Day
If you prefer Southern small‑town drama: Sweet CarolineLove Starts with ElleDining with JoyGeorgia On Her Mind
If you like music‑industry settings: Nashville DreamsNashville SweetheartThe Sweet By and BySoftly and TenderlyLove Lifted Me

Author bio

Rachel Hauck grew up in the Midwest and the South, the second-oldest of five kids in a family that moved between Ohio, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Florida. In every place she lived she collected details, people, and moments, tucking them away long before she knew they would become the raw material for novels.

As a girl she filled diary after diary, more than four thousand entries by her own count, and spent long afternoons making up stories with friends and siblings. That habit followed her to college, where she studied journalism at Ohio State University. Long drives between Florida and Columbus, and later work trips across the United States and overseas, became quiet spaces where she imagined characters and plots while the miles rolled by.

After graduation she built a career in the corporate world, training software users and traveling widely. The work was steady, but the desire to write never really went away. In the mid‑1990s she finally tried her hand at a novel, a World War II story set in the Aleutian Islands. The book stayed in a drawer, yet pieces of it later resurfaced in Love Starts with Elle and convinced her that nothing in a writer’s life is ever wasted.

Her first published book, Lambert’s Pride, released in 2004 and opened the door to a steady stream of stories. Since then she has written or co‑written multiple series, including the New Hampshire‑set Lambert books, the Nashville music novels, the Lowcountry Romance trilogy, the Songbird novels with country artist Sara Evans, and the Hearts Bend and royal romance books that many readers now think of as home base.

Hauck is best known for blending contemporary love stories with hints of the past and a touch of the miraculous. The Wedding Dress introduced readers to a mysterious gown shared by four brides across a century and went on to hit major bestseller lists and win Romantic Times’ Inspirational Novel of the Year. Once Upon a Prince launched the Royal Wedding series and was later adapted as a Hallmark movie, bringing her modern fairy‑tale world to the screen.

Other favorites such as The Writing Desk, The Love Letter, The Memory House, and The Fifth Avenue Story Society lean into split‑time storytelling. They pair present‑day characters with historical counterparts, usually tied together by an heirloom, a house, or a hidden letter. Across settings as different as small‑town Tennessee, the South Carolina coast, New York City, and seaside Florida, her characters wrestle with grief, career pressure, family secrets, and the quiet work of faith.

Awards and lists matter to her mostly because they mean the stories are finding readers. She has appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, received a Christy Award, been a double finalist for the RITA Award, and earned Romantic Times’ Career Achievement honor. She has also spent years encouraging other writers through the American Christian Fiction Writers organization and at conferences and mentoring groups.

These days Hauck writes from an upstairs office she jokingly calls her ivory tower in central Florida, where she lives with her husband and their pet. When she is not drafting or revising, she is just as likely to be watching Ohio State football, lingering over coffee with friends, or people‑watching for the next character who might wander into Hearts Bend or a royal palace.

For all the travel, awards, and adaptations, she still approaches each new book the way she did that first unpublished story, as a chance to ask what God might be up to in ordinary lives and how love, in all its forms, can change the way we see our own stories.

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Richard Reis

Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.

Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

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